Dr Edward Wilson-Lee, Sidney Sussex

Biographical Information

A graduate of University College London, Columbia University, and the University of Cambridge, Edward Wilson-Lee is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College.

Research Interests

Late-medieval and early modern English and European literature, specifically: the works and posthumous reception of Philip Sidney; chivalric romance, including the translation, printing, reception, and influence of chivalric romance in the 16th century; cheap print and the early modern public sphere; Shakespeare; book history, and the history of print and libraries; the literary cultures of East Africa; literature and travel; the history of archives.

Areas of Graduate Supervision

The history of the book and of printing, translation (especially from French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese), transnational literary and technological relations, Shakespeare, libraries, knowledge organization, Tudor literature, medievial-into-Renaissance topics, the literary cultures of East Africa

Selected Publications

BOOKS

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library (William Collins; May 2018; forthcoming from Scribner (USA), and in German, French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese translations, 2019). Order on Amazon

ed., with José María Pérez Fernández, Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern Europe (CUP, 2014). 'Introduction' (co-written with José María Pérez Fernández), and chapter ('Glosses and Oracles: Translating the Reader in Early Modern Europe'). Buy from CUP or Amazon.

ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

'Women's Weapons: Country House Diplomacy and the Countess of Pembroke's French Translations' in Rowan Tomlinson and Tania Demetriou, eds, The Culture of Translation in Early Modern England and France (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).